A display apparatus and a method for controlling the display apparatus are disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a communication interface comprising communication circuitry, a display, a plurality of speakers, and a processor, and the processor is configured to: control the communication interface to receive an acoustic content corresponding to a sound signal of a plurality of channels corresponding to a specified frequency bandwidth, extend a frequency bandwidth of at least one channel of the plurality of channels based on a specified parametric equalizer (PEQ), perform correction of reducing a gain in middle frequency and high frequency bands of at least one channel of the plurality of channels with the extended frequency bandwidth, and output each sound signal of the plurality of corrected channels to the plurality of corresponding speakers so that a sound image of the sound signal is formed in a center area of the display.